This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.
A literary work entry records a work of literature, a novel, a poem, an epic, a devotional or theological work written with literary craft as a deliberate part of its purpose, that engages religion as its subject, distinct from the atlas's Scripture entries in never having been received by any tradition as revealed or canonical text. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion treats this pairing, a specific text alongside the specific tradition it draws on or argues with, as the right unit of study, rather than treating literature and religion as two separate subjects that merely happen to overlap occasionally.
An entry records a work's author, its language, its place and period of origin, and, where it is documented, how it was received by scholars and by readers within the tradition it engages, since a literary work's religious content can be read very differently by a scholar of literature, a scholar of the tradition it depicts, and an ordinary reader from within that tradition, and those readings are frequently worth recording as three separate, not necessarily agreeing, facts.
The Companion deliberately covers Dharmic and Abrahamic traditions on equal footing rather than treating Christian literature as the default case, a discipline this type's entries try to match, describing a given work's religious content in the vocabulary and categories of the tradition it actually engages rather than importing a single tradition's assumptions onto every other one.